By Danielle Daniels

Jamison Battle Ohio State Forward Postgame Press Conference #15 Wisconsin 71 Buckeyes 60 1 10 2024.mp3

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Jamison Battle scored 18 points but Ohio State dropped a second-consecutive game after falling 71-60 against No. 15 Wisconsin on Wednesday night at Value City Arena.

The Buckeyes are now 2-3 in Big Ten play and 12-4 on the season.

Graduate transfer Jamison Battle posted 18 points, leading the Buckeyes in scoring while shooting 7-of-11 from the field, including 4-of-5 from long range and grabbing eight boards.

The Buckeyes are next in action on Monday for a Martin Luther King Day matinee at Michigan. Tip-off is set for noon in Ann Arbor.

• With his 18 points, Jamison Battle has now scored 17 or more points in each of the last five games and is averaging 18.2 ppg over that span.
• Battle was 4-of-5 from long range and has made 25 three-pointers in the last five games. He has also grabbed eight rebounds or more in four of the last five games.

2023-24 NOTES ON JAMISON BATTLE

BATTLE HITTING FROM RANGE
• Jamison Battle has made a three-pointer in all 15
games this season and has a total of 47 on the
year.
• He has attempted and made the most threes
of anyone in the Big Ten this season but is also
shooting the highest percentage as well, canning 45.2 percent of his attempts.
• He has five games with five three-pointers made.
He has also made five threes in four consecutive games, marking the first time a Buckeye has
done that since Jon Diebler did it in four consecutive games from Nov. 24 to Dec. 5, 2009.
• No player in program history has made five or
more three-pointers in five consecutive games.
• Dating back to last season, Battle has made at
least one three-pointer in 21 of the last 22 games

BATTLE TOPS 300 THREE-POINTERS
• With his first three-pointer in the game at Indiana
on Jan. 6, Jamison Battle recorded his 300th career three-point field goal.
• Currently, he is 10th on the NCAA active career
list. Of the Top 10 players on the list, he has
played in the second-fewest games (118).
• Battle is a career 36.3 percent from distance and
is shooting a career-best 45.2 percent this season.

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